Take your existing blueprint and place 2x2 of them. Then remove the rails in the middle leaving everything else as is. Now you have a larger cell that works just like your existing setup. You can also use landfill paintings (so you have different landfills) to put sand under rails and grass around ...

It's not, generating the waypoints is going to be roughly as expensive as a full pathfinding run. The reason it works is that you remember those waypoints for next time, and continue reusing them until the rail network changes. Except you generate waypoints for all possible path everytime you add a...

I'm not sure I understand the question. Factorio already has a pathfinder it can use to reach the waypoints along the way to the final destination, there's no reason it can't use the same pathfinder for the waypoints instead of the final destination. If you're asking what's the best way to generate...

How are you suggesting the game find the path to the destination so it can put this waypoint on it? I'm not sure I understand the question. Factorio already has a pathfinder it can use to reach the waypoints along the way to the final destination, there's no reason it can't use the same pathfinder ...

I have built a lot of megabases and I have faced all of the above problems many times. This is not the first solution I've come up with, but it is by far the best solution I've come up with so far. I've probably missed a few benefits, but the above list will have to do for now. I never had that pro...

nothing_in_particular.png It looks to me like you have layd a fine grid of rails over the entire continent! But why? A cell size of three smelter columns is way too small to be of any use. Enlarge the cells four times near your base and even more further out. Then you can expand as much as you want...

for longer trips trains plot a path to an intermediate point that's closer to their destination and then replot when they get (close to) there instead of plotting out the entire path from the get go. Isn't that waypoints? More or less, yes. But, automagically generated for the purposes of optimizat...

nothing_in_particular.png It looks to me like you have layd a fine grid of rails over the entire continent! But why? A cell size of three smelter columns is way too small to be of any use. Enlarge the cells four times near your base and even more further out. Then you can expand as much as you want...

https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?t=52635 OHGODS. It's a djikstra. The only thing djikstra has over A* is that it is easier to implement. No wonder big railnetworks with lots of intersections are slow. If you say so. The only time I've ever seen rail path finding being "slow" is o...

I have a ~780 SPM base that I'm loathe to expand because it's starting to drop below 60 UPS on my machine (Xeon E5 2690v2, 64G RAM @ 1600 MHz). Instead I've been tweaking it for better UPS, and after some changes and investigation, it seems a lot of the time is being spent on trains: nothing_in_part...

Let me just preface this with the fact that I was very excited about bots being able to landfill lakes, that was a huge tedium in late game to do manually. Ok, so I don't entirely understand the behaviour of landfill when in a blueprint, but it's definitely not how I would have expected it to work. ...

Very much agree with the other comments. Being able to blueprint and deconstruct in areas covered by fog of war is tremendously useful, as it saves a ton of hassle. Please bring it back.

I got really excited when I started to read this. Then I started thinking... "But how do you trigger the mines to kill the trees?"

bobucles wrote:- Mines are eco friendly and will not hurt trees. Who would have thought?

Noooooo!

I was setting up some chest/bot fed AM2s and more specifically was setting a logistic condition limit on the output inserter for an array of inserter when the segfault happened. As I recall it, step by step: - copy yellow inserter AM2 to requester chest - set logistic condition on inserter for yello...

Ah, excellent. Yes, that mod is very helpful. Thanks.

Ok, I can accept that the pathing of the bots is a design decision. It was definitely a surprise to me to see the bots fly out only to land back at exactly the same Roboport again, my experience thus far is that they would continue flying to their destination after reaching 0 J, albeit very slowly. ...

We have a very large and sprawling base (~1.3k roboports), all of which is covered by the same logistics network. This game started as multiplayer and has been continued as multiplayer for the most part, though with some playtime via single player. Currently there are a large number of ghost entitie...